From Samara..."An awesome website is called bookadventure.comYou can create student accounts. Students read books and take a comprehension quiz. It's a bit time consuming to set up accounts and gather all the books that are on the computer, but worth it. I put them in a tub for students to choose from. They have book from level k-12 and you can search by author or title to see if they have the quiz. They can earn points for rewards or you can make your own incentives. My kids are very excited about reading now!"
From Julie P: starfall.com early literacy materials Interesting Site for teaching "Vocabulary" www.wordgeneration.org it is created for middle school classrooms, however we can make it fit for elementary.
Lexiles: link to The Lexile Framework website
Lexile Grade Level Conversion Chart :
CSAP Resources
List of 29 CSAP vocab with definitions
CSAP Flash cards
http://flashcarddb.com/cardset/63140-csap-vocabulary-words-flashcards
Main Idea PP
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/ttravis-58115-Main-Idea-Education-ppt-powerpoint/
Idioms
http://www.musicalenglishlessons.org/vocabulary/musicidioms.htmhttp://eslcafe.com/idioms/
http://www.idiomsbykids.com
Here is some research on Effective Literacy Instruction for Elementary:
A culpable CALP- Aukerman (2007).pdf
Longmont library resources
Multi-lingual literacy.doc
Literacy Crisis-Adolesc. ELL (all4ed_Feb07).pdf
From Samara..."An awesome website is called bookadventure.com You can create student accounts. Students read books and take a comprehension quiz. It's a bit time consuming to set up accounts and gather all the books that are on the computer, but worth it. I put them in a tub for students to choose from. They have book from level k-12 and you can search by author or title to see if they have the quiz. They can earn points for rewards or you can make your own incentives. My kids are very excited about reading now!"
From Julie P: starfall.com early literacy materials
Interesting Site for teaching "Vocabulary" www.wordgeneration.org it is created for middle school classrooms, however we can make it fit for elementary.